The migration: MIR on Drupal

I have been working with a couple other drupal heads with the Philadelphia IMC to create a Mir to Drupal transfer script.

It works, but depends on a significant number of modules. We're getting ready to roll out a beta IMC after transferring all the content, so I'll let you know when we are ready to release the script.

We'll publish all the steps, etc on docs.indymedia.org as well as here when the process is complete.

The translation script that the PhillyIMC used to migrate the Mir database to Drupal lives in codecoop, under the phillyimc project. A link to the script in the source viewer is here:

http://www.codecoop.org/scm/viewvc.php/drupal/bin/mir_to_drupal.php?root...

This script depends on a couple of modules in Drupal, notably: internationalization, CCK, and filecache. With CCK, create the folowing:

1. an image field for articles
2. a summary field for articles
3. a url field for articles
4. an author field for articles
5. a 'feature' content type (for front-page stories)
6. a 'headline' content type

The import script will create a table named 'mir_id_map', which can be used to map your old Mir article IDs to the new drupal node IDs. mod_rewrite is handy for this.

For images, all the image media is translated from its mir file system path to the drupal /files system path. You will need to change references to phillyimc.org and file paths to reflect your system configuration. The script assumes that it is running on the same computer as the mir media files.

Finally, the script needs to be run from the command line. You may have to bump up the maximum memory for php cli when running this script -- it will use a lot of memory during the export/import process.

Good luck!